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  Going Places by A.R.Burton In the chapter Going Places by A. R. Barton, the title has multiple layers of meaning : Success: Sophie imagines a glamorous future and believes she is "going places" in life. Literal Meaning: She escapes her ordinary mundane life through fantasies and goes to many places in her imagination and meets the footballer Danny Casey. Irony of the title: The title suggests progress and exciting possibilities, but happens just the other way round, Sophie has not actually gone anywhere. Her "journey" exists only in her imagination.  Dreams are motivators or de-motivators? Dreams can inspire people to work hard and achieve success. However, Sophie's dreams are unrealistic because she neither plans nor works towards realising them. Instead of accepting her circumstances and making practical efforts, she escapes into fantasy. Thus, dreams are valuable only when they are supported by determinati...

  A Roadside Stand – Robert Lee Frost     Robert Frost is known for his simple and colloquial language dealing with complexities of ordinary and everyday life, human relationships, isolation, morality, rural life and nature. Frost often used nature as tool and the central theme on which he knitted his ideas, experiences and emotions. The poem was first published in 1936. It is very important to know the American society of that time. America was suffering from the infamous Great Depression (1929) which was a global economic crisis that continued till 1939 leading to unemployment and poverty. It was worsened by the Dust Bowl, a severe dust storm that disturbed the ecological balance in America leaving the farming families in utter distress and were compelled to migrate in search of livelihood.   America was struggling to recover through the New Deal of President Roosevelt (1933) who mostly emphasised on construction work, industrialisation and employment. The social...

  The Interview   PART-I History – The First published interview is by Horace Greeley in 1859 (Founder and editor of The New York Tribune) who interviewed Brigham Young, an American religious leader and politician. This gave the readers a sense of direct contact with the leaders . Interview grew as a new and powerful tool for revealing popular personalities behind their political or social events . 20 th century is considered to be the Golden Era of interview with the rise of Radio in early 1920s as it brought the voice of the popular Actors, politicians, leaders and the writers to the house of the common man. It crossed the boundary between literate and illiterate as it no longer remained confined among the educated or literate class.   Later in 1950, when Television entered the drawing rooms, it further added the visual impact of those popular personalities and their reactions during interviews. Thus the audio-visual element added new flavor to the electron...